Bug Tabs on left, thumbnails show when selecting text in website

erpel

Hi Vivaldi community

Weird issue here, when I select text that is "close" to the left edge, the tab thumbnails of my left hand vertical tabs activate.

Reproduced on 6.6.3271.61 (Stable channel) (arm64) on latest macOS on two different machines. Both systems do not sync the settings, these are completely independent profiles.
I also confirmed that it can happen on a windows machine, although it appears to be more rare.

To reproduce:

Tab Bar position: Left
Tab Options: Show Popup Thumbnails, Show Tab Thumbnails

Open a few tabs, so the bar is populated a fair bit.

Navigate to a page with text without a big margin to the left. Mobile Wikipedia works, for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)
The content part of my browser window is just under 1400px, the text has a left margin of 4-5cm to the tab bar.

Select the second paragraph of the article by click-dragging the mouse cursor from the end of the paragraph to the beginning, release mouse button and move curser slightly back into the area of the selected text.

BOOM, the tab preview (one tab or for stacks, does not matter) opens without the cursor ever touching the tab bar.

It sounds minor, but selecting text is common and the tab stack previews can become quite large. This requires mouse acrobatics to close the preview again before continuing to work with a site.

I have a video of it, need to figure out how to post this best. Let me know if you also have this behavior, it's been bugging me for a few updates now...

Have a great weekend,
Philipp

Pathduck

@erpel Hi, I can't reproduce this here, on Win10 x64, using a clean profile of Vivaldi 6.6 Stable.

I think a video might help. I like this service:
https://wormhole.app

Testing in a clean profile is kind of required for submitting bugs, see:
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/troubleshoot/troubleshooting-issues/

Pathduck

Oh I see, I think I can reproduce now. Thing is you need to open enough tabs on the left so they are in line with the end of the selection. Don't even need to end the selection outside the text in some cases.

"Show Tab Thumbnails" does not seem to matter.
"Popup thumbnails" are default.

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Weird bug, kind of an edge case but would be annoying if using side tabs.

Please read:

carefully and report the bug to Vivaldi bugtracker.
Please also post the bug-number (VB-#) here after reporting

erpel

Reported as VB-105745.

Thank you for looking at it and reproducing. I included a link to this forum post in the report, so your video should be available to whoever looks at this.

Looking forward to it maybe getting fixed

Best
Philipp

Pathduck

@erpel said in Bug Tabs on left, thumbnails show when selecting text in website:

VB-105745

Thanks, I confirmed the issue in the tracker.
Apparently this is a regression in 6.6 - it does not happen in 6.5.
It also happens in 6.7 which is just around the corner. I doubt this will make it into the first release though.

so your video should be available

It's not a video, it's an animated WEBP

DoctorG

Work is in progress by dev to fix bug VB-104719 "Tab thumbnail appears as you select the text"

daniel

This should be fixed in the latest Vivaldi 3405.3 snapshot (test version).

JonYork2

Very similar issue here except it's happening in the lower left-hand corner of the browser. And it's literally rendering the browser unusable because I can't click on anything that's in that portion of a web page.

For me these previews are only of my pinned tabs. But I have a bunch (as you can see in the screenshot) so whichever pinned tab my mouse is under - brings up a preview in the lower left-hand portion of the browser and anything the preview covers cannot be clicked. (I'm finding out just how many times I need to click that area of web pages)!

And it doesn't matter where I put my cursor vertically - as long as it is under one of the pinned tabs - these previews will come up and block a portion of the page. You can see in the screenshot it actually interfered with the typing of this message!

I'm on Vivaldi version: 7.0.3495.6

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And one more screenshot just to show you how completely disruptive this is. See where the cursor is - hovering near the Categories menu item at the top of this web page? Well, if I click on Categories there - instead of going to Categories, it will take me to the tab that shows up in the preview at the bottom of the page - so it's very disruptive to browsing.

mib2berlin

@JonYork2
Hi, this is a know issue and the developers work on a fix.
As workaround disable Horizontal Scrolling in the tab settings.

Cheers, mib

JonYork2

Thank you for the work around!

But wow, that sure messes up the display of the tabs! I look forward to them getting this fixed.

SecretHQ

@JonYork2 Same here. Thanks for coming to the forum to post; I glanced on Friday, but didn't see any reports. Your new post helped me find this thread.

For me, it's not only the thumbnail previews causing problems, but the tabs bar won't yield focus to the page when I move my mouse from the tabs bar to the content area. While hovering over a page and moving my scroll wheel, my tabs bar is scrolling, not the page I'm hovering over. I'd almost describe that behavior as a second, separate bug (though perhaps one with the same root cause as the browsing interference caused by the rogue tab thumbnails).

I stumbled onto the workaround of disabling Horizontal Scrolling on the Tabs Bar after trying disabling other settings — but I do hope a fix is forthcoming. (I missing horizontal scrolling in workspaces where I have a lot of open tabs/tab stacks.)

@mib2berlin Are these separate issues that require fresh bug reports, or are they already documented and being investigated? Are there better forum threads to keep up with the progress on this one/these ones?

mib2berlin

@SecretHQ
Hi, do you mean the scrolling issue?
The bug with preview in the lower left-hand portion is reported, confirmed and in progress.
You can follow the report:
VB-109573
Thumbs of pinned tabs appear at bottom of window and block interaction

In the bug status thread:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/27450/what-is-the-status-of-vb-already-reported-bug-issue/

Cheers, mib

SecretHQ

Thanks, @mib2berlin!

Regarding:

Hi, do you mean the scrolling issue?

Yes, I'm wondering if that has been experienced and described by any one else or if it merits a thread of its own (and perhaps a bug report). Should I ask in the bug status thread, or would that be out of line?

mib2berlin

@SecretHQ
Please open a new thread for the scrolling issue, if other user can confirm.
I cant reproduce it at moment but with my 10 tabs I rarely use it and have tab popup and tab thumbnails usually disabled.

@SecretHQ said in Bug Tabs on left, thumbnails show when selecting text in website:

or would that be out of line?

Yes, this tread is only for status requests.

SecretHQ

Thanks for the help and guidance, @mib2berlin!

By the time I was able to get back to the forum, Vivaldi 7.0.3495 had been released, and it appears to fix both the Pinned Tabs thumbnail bug and the focus bug I described (but never opened a thread for). At least, I'm seeing no signs of either in any installation of Vivaldi across Windows 10 and 11 machines.

@JonYork2, have you had a chance to update and test yet?